Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 129

129 Restriction about records and access to surveillance warrant applications etc.

(1) This section applies to the following (
"relevant proceeding" )—

(a) an application to a Supreme Court judge for—

(i) a surveillance warrant; or

(ii) the extension of a surveillance warrant;

(b) an order made under an application mentioned in paragraph (a) .

(2) Despite the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 , a transcript of a relevant proceeding must not be made.

(3) Also, no record of the application or of any order made in a relevant proceeding is to be available for search by any person, except by direction of a Supreme Court judge.

(4) A person must not publish a report of a relevant proceeding.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—85 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(5) A person is not entitled to search information in the custody of a court in relation to a relevant proceeding, unless a Supreme Court judge otherwise orders in the interests of justice.

(6) Nothing in this section prevents a person who was present at a relevant proceeding from giving oral evidence to a court about things that happened at the proceeding.